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"People who avoid failure, also avoid success"
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Comments
Couldn't agree more, website and even software nowadays have designs more centred on looking "flashy" and "modern" than practical and easy to navigate. Hopefully this trend reverses at some point. : P
To add to the LOL comment re: Facebook, ignoring all their web based design fails, the stupidest thing I think I've ever seen is their decision to launch Facebook Messenger, which basically took one working app that does everything, and switched it into two that don't, I assume purely for them being able to increase the number of app installs and ads served as a result.
Sites should just stick with simplified designs, not try to all "Web 2.0" everything.
Know what works a hell of a lot better than over-reliance on browser-specific JavaScripts, embedded Flash where inappropriate (it is appropriate only for games/video, not for site design), other embedded idiocy design (DirectX, Silverlight, etc...), and so forth? Just sticking to good solid HTML design, with emphasis on accessibility! And test the site on a variety of browsers under a variety of OSes to make sure it works correctly before deployment. We don't need anything else.
If sites would just stick to HTML (and CSS, where appropriate), and tone way back the JavaScript and plugins type stuff everything would work amazingly on nearly everything and be blazing fast too!
Where are plugins acceptable? Literally only for web games or movies, which is how Newgrounds tends to use them. Where they're not acceptable? Almost anything else.
Happy clock day brother, gave you a 5! Good list... I miss the cheezburger after dark site. Gamewinners.com isn't bad, hasn't changed much. Yahoo mail sucks ass, hit an arrow key at the wrong time, and it goes through your inbox, erasing your letter, leaving you at the mercy of a saved draft... guess now, unwanted draft saving makes sense. BBC definitely got worse, but the drudgereport.com hasn't changed in 15+ years. And have you seen deviantart lately?! Was so happy when the Art portal started here.
Would you say the new blog editor was a good thing? Took a while for me to figure it out. And damn, I'm glad I kept pressing Tom about adding an order button to blog comments!
yeah, drudge report is a great example of keeping things simple
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I sure hope Tom still remembers how Newgrounds always stood out from the rest of the live content websites. There's so many memorable aspects of this website that, if removed for the sake of "modernization", would kill the distinction of Newgrounds.
Newgrounds is not just a place where you can watch and submit content. It's a monument of independence all over, sort of an anarchy. Newgrounds was FIGHTING the general standards from the beginning!